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I'm using Yamaha DSP-Z7 as player. It is capable of playing back AAC, WAV and MP3.I however have many tunes in OGG and FLAC format.

I have managed to transcode FLACs to WAV with no issues when using Windows version of Twonky (ffmpeg doing the recoding). When using LinkStation, this doesn't work. When using ffmpeg from command line in LinkStation it works fine. I'm using exactly the same config/options (descs, .dbs etc.) in both LinkStation and Windows (except of course ffmpeg.location), but still this issue persists.

Performance is not the issue, LinkStation decodes FLAC to WAV relatively fast. Fuppes works fine in this aspect too.

Is it possible to have transcoding active in Twonky with Buffalo LinkStation, or am I missing something obvious?

I now decided to try out Twonky 4 and even managed to compile cgi-flac for my LinkStation.

When runnin cgi-flac manually, I can convert wav to flac with no problems. However, as with my ffmpeg transcoding, it doesn't work.

Again, when comparing to similarly configured Windows PC acting as Twonky -server, everything works perfectly.

What could I be doing wrong? Either I just am unable to understand the log, or there is nothing indicating transcoding process.

Could it just be, that twonky is unable with my different tests to start cgi-flac, flac or ffmpeg and starting these processes is somewhat different between *nix & Windows? For example when I was running ffmpeg, ffmpeg.location was in windows machine "c:\ffmpeg" (which was the directory where I installed ffmpeg's windows' distribution) and with Linkstation it was "/opt/bin" (both naturally without "s). I can manually start theses bins from console, but could some attributes or something like that stop twonky from launching these?

Any help is greatly appreciated!